Kai'Sa vs Jarvan IV
How to Beat Jarvan IV as Kai'Sa
based on 2,252 Kai'Sa vs Jarvan IV matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Jarvan IV Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Jarvan IV Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Jarvan IV as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Jarvan IV
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
Advice to Win Against Jarvan IV
Cataclysm's terrain is a frightening force to fight against, but movement abilities can go through it.
Keep out of the path between Jarvan IV and his Demacian Standard to avoid being knocked up in the air.
Kai'Sa vs Jarvan IV Counter Stats
How to Counter Jarvan IV with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several strategic Kai'Sa versus Jarvan IV matchup stats that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Jarvan IV’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Jarvan IV..
Kai'Sa often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Jarvan IV. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Jarvan IV
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Jarvan IV?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when facing off against Jarvan IV, with a 48.4% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter for Jarvan IV.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower win rate compared to Jarvan IV, when facing one another, Kai'Sa also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Kai'Sa into Jarvan IV.
Furthermore, Kai'Sa also has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jarvan IV. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Jarvan IV matchups, Jarvan IV is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Kai'Sa is a somewhat poor counter to Jarvan IV. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Kai'Sa against Jarvan IV.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kai'Sa
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Kai'Sa in order to counter Jarvan IV during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa often gets much more CS as Jarvan IV. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Kai'Sa versus Jarvan IV build consist of Terminus, Stormsurge, and Kraken Slayer. When Kai'Sa used at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when facing Jarvan IV than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa had an average winrate of 48.4% when countering Jarvan IV with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Jarvan IV as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Kai'Sa vs Jarvan IV counter picks, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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